Christina Blizzard

Christina Blizzard

Special to the Sun

Christina Blizzard is the Queen's Park Columnist for QMI. She has covered provincial politics since 1994, and is the author of Right Turn: How the Tories Took Ontario, a book chronicling the rise to power of Mike Harris and his Common Sense Revolutionaries in 1995. She has covered four provincial elections and four premiers - Bob Rae, Mike Harris, Ernie Eves and Dalton McGuinty. Prior to arriving at Queen's Park, she spent many years at Toronto City Hall and the school board trying, unsuccessfully, to use her laptop computer as a blunt instrument to inculcate the values of thrift and respect for taxpayers' money in councillors, trustees and bureaucrats. Blizzard is a past president of the Legislative Press Gallery and a board member of the community newspaper, the Beach Metro News. She's worked for the Sun since it started as well as for The Guardian in London, England and the now defunct Toronto Telegram.

Just when you thought the relationship between Health Minister Eric Hoskins and the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) couldn’t get worse, the minister — a physician himself — delivered a thinly-disguised declaration of war on doctors.
Reporters were summoned to an early morning briefing on the new physician compensation agreement that Hoskins is throwing down to the OMA.

The head of the Ontario Medical
Association and a property developer
paid $5,500 each to have lunch with
Premier Kathleen Wynne as a fundraiser
for a posh women’s golf club two years
ago, the Toronto Sun has learned.

It came right out of left field and
Ontario Attorney General Yasir Naqvi
says it’s up to Toronto Police to
investigate the beer can-throwing
incident that occurred in the bottom of
the seventh inning in the Blue Jays-
Orioles game Tuesday.

PC Leader Patrick Brown says derogatory
comments about a doctor made in an
email by a staffer to Health Minister
Eric Hoskins are typical of the way the
Liberal government smears health-care
professionals.

There’s a giant black hole in the
Sunshine List this year, say
opposition politicians, who are
outraged the sell-off of Hydro One
means it’s no longer subject to
legislation requiring the salaries of
all public servants making more than
$100,000 be made public.